Digital Assessments on Our Campus

In the fall, educators completed the Clarity survey, providing insight into how our district uses technology for teaching and learning. One data point we are looking closely at this year as a campus is assessment. Below are the results on some of the data points that relate to the use of digital assessments on our campus.

Quick Tip

Low-stakes formative assessments are the most useful learner data. Routinely assessing understanding is one way to help learners before they fall behind or fail a major assessment. Use the quick Schoology Polls feature, Google Forms or other top tech tools for digital assessment for quick exit tickets or brief quizzes to get instant feedback to meet learners' needs. Know when a topic needs additional instruction or when to move on.

Opportunity to Learn

• Scroll to the bottom of this resource to learn about Schoology’s Poll Feature.
• Learn about Schoology Discussion Boards as a way to collect feedback from learners.
• Visit this resource to learn about Bulb’s Feedback Features and using portfolios as a method for assessing student learning.
• Log into this Schoology Course to learn how Schooloogy AMP can help you create common assessments with shared data.
• Check out this blog post to read about the new Schoology assessment features.

In order to celebrate our progress, calibrate our understanding of where we are as a campus, set goals, and refine our practice leave your takeaways in the comments.



Citations

Bhagat, K., & Spector, J. (2017). Formative assessment in complex problem-solving domains: The emerging role of assessment technologies. Journal of Educational Technology & Society, 20(4), 312-317. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/26229226.

Datnow, A., & Park, V. (2015). Data use—for equity. Educational Leadership, 75(5), 48-54. Retrieved from https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1051704.

Takahashi, A., & McDougal, T. (2016). Collaborative lesson research: Maximizing the impact of lesson study. ZDM Mathematics Education, 48(4), 513–526. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1007/s11858-015-0752-x.

Schoology Game Changers

Schoology has made some GAME CHANGING updates that we are super excited to pass along!

Text to Speech Option for All Assessments

Educators now have the ability to enable 'text to speech' for assessments built within a course OR a managed assessment in AMP. Check out this short video created by Sam Neal to see how your learners can have assessments read to them.

Pro Tip: This functionality will also work with Respondus Lockdown Browser!

Convert Assessments to AMP

As of Friday, March 1, you can convert not only Test Quizzes, but also Schoology Assessments from your Resources into AMP question banks! These will import as new question banks, not merged into existing question banks.

Ability to Individually Assign New Materials

Schoology has expanded its individually assign feature. In addition to graded materials, educators can Individually Assign discussions, pages, files, links, external tools, and media albums to individual students and/or to grading groups. Be on the look out for this feature to also be added to folders in the future.

New Schoology Guide Center

This new, personalized by role, guide center helps users find the most relevant up to date schoology information. It contains a help center, quick start checklist and “what’s new” Schoology updates.

Spring Into PL

Soak up some Springtime PL with our March offerings. Click on each event to learn more.